Newsletter of the Social Psychology Section of the American Sociological Association Social Psychology Fall 1998 SECTION OFFICERS Chair CHAIRS REMARKS Linda D. Molm University of Arizona
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[email protected] Chair-Elect Lynn Smith-Lovin At a time when some sections are struggling for survival, the Social Psychology Section University of Arizona is stronger than ever. For as long as I can remember, our membership has hovered around
[email protected] the 600 mark, creating some anxiety each year about whether we would qualify for four sessions on the ASA program. This past year, thanks to Ed Lawler's leadership and the Secretary-Treasurer Donald C. Reitzes (2001) hard work of the membership committee (chaired by Doug Maynard), we boosted our Georgia State University numbers to a far more comfortable level: 652! Thanks and congratulations to all of you
[email protected] who made this possible. And, a special welcome to our new members. Please continue to encourage your colleagues and graduate students to support social psychology by Council Denise Bielby (00) joining the section. University of California I'm sure that all of you who attended the social psychology sessions at this year's ASA at Santa Barbara meetings found them as stimulating as I did. It was a great program, highlighted by
[email protected] David Heise's receipt of the Cooley-Mead Award. I hope next year's program in Chicago Phillip Bonacich (99) will be equally exciting. Our theme for 1999 will be "Social Psychological Perspectives on University of California Inequality." Not only is inequality a core concern of both our discipline and our society, it at Los Angeles is a topic that has concerned social psychologists from all of our "faces." Often, though,
[email protected] social psychological contributions to understanding inequality are overlooked by other Marta Elliott (2001) sociologists and by policy makers.